What Should You Blog About?

Posted by Tony

September 25, 2007

Many people who decide to start a blog don’t make more than a few posts before losing interest. They feel as if they don’t have anything to blog about. There are many reasons this can happen. Sometimes people decide their life isn’t exciting enough to write about on a daily or weekly basis. This is because new bloggers mistakenly view blogs as personal diaries or journals, when this is only a small aspect of why people create blogs.

Having a blog and not connecting with other bloggers is like going to a big community barbeque and sitting in the car. Half the fun of blogging is connecting with other bloggers. Get out there and join the party.

In a way, a blog is actually like your own personal section of a message board that is made up of dozens or even hundreds of blogs written by people who have your same interests, views or position in life. All you have to do to tap into this network is to search out other blogs that fit your own.

For example, if you are a mechanic, search out other blogs written by mechanics. Once you find blogs written by other mechanics, you can also visit blogs on their blog roll. A blog roll is a list of blogs that that person likes to read on a regular basis.

It won’t take long before you find other mechanics who you may have more in common with as far as hobbies and interests, family similarities, cultural backgrounds, professional interests, or even sense of humor or political views.

When you find a few blogs that you like and find yourself reading on a regular basis, begin to post comments on those blogs. Sometimes they will write a comment back, just as someone who began a thread on a message board would continue the conversation after the initial post. The person might also visit your blog and leave a comment on one of your posts. This back and forth conversation on each other’s blogs creates a kind of online friendship. You will probably have several blogs that you visit regularly and leave comments back and forth on.

Before you know it, you may find that one of your blog friends has referred to your blog in one of their own posts, pointing out a blog post they really liked or just saying that they like the way you think. When this happens, bloggers who read that person’s blog will come and check out your blog, leaving comments for you, which gives you a whole new opportunity to make some new blog friends.

Something interesting happens in a community of blogs. There are opportunities for great friendships because the initial connection is based on similar life experience, similar careers or similar world views. In the real world many of our friendships are made simply because we went to the same school, work in the same place or live on the same street. When you make friends via blogs, you sometimes come to know a lot more about how they view the world than you may know about people you’ve known for years.

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